UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog
The UK's market watchdog has warned that US health insurer UnitedHealth's £1.24 billion bid to buy UK health records software supplier EMIS could lead to worse outcomes for the NHS.
Under UK law, if a merger is deemed likely to reduce competition substantially, the CMA has the power to block it or impose remedies to address those concerns, as it did withToday, the CMA pointed out that EMIS is a large and established supplier of data management systems to the NHS. Within its portfolio are electronic patient record system used by the majority of NHS GPs in the UK.
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